Job:15

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* Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite , and said : * Should a wise man answer with arguments of wind , Or fill his bosom with the east wind ? * Should he argue with speech that helpeth him not , And with words which do not profit him ? * Behold , thou makest the fear of God a vain thing , And discouragest prayer before him . * Yea , thy own mouth proclaimeth thy iniquity , Though thou choosest the tongue of the crafty . * Thy own mouth condemneth thee , and not I ; Thy own lips testify against thee . * Art thou the first man that was born ? Wast thou formed before the hills ? * Hast thou listened in the council of God , And drawn all wisdom to thyself ? * What dost thou know , that we know not also ? What dost thou understand , that is a secret to us ? * With us are the aged and hoary –headed ; Much older than thy father . * Dost thou despise the consolations of God , And words so full of kindness to thee ? * Why hath thy passion taken possession of thee ? And why this winking of thine eyes ? * For against God hast thou turned thy spirit , And uttered such words from thy mouth . * What is man , that he should be pure , And he that is born of woman , that he should be innocent ? * Behold , He putteth no trust in his ministering spirits , And the heavens are not pure in his sight ; * Much less , abominable and polluted man , Who drinketh iniquity as water . * Hear me , and I will show thee , And that which I have seen will I declare ; * Which the wise men have told , And not kept concealed , as received from their fathers ; * To whom alone the land was given , And among whom not a stranger wandered . * "All his days the wicked man is in pain ; Yea , all the years , that are laid up for the oppressor . * A fearful sound is in his ears ; In peace the destroyer cometh upon him . * He hath no hope that he shall escape from darkness ; He is set apart for the sword . * He wandereth about , seeking bread ; He knoweth that a day of darkness is at hand . * Distress and anguish fill him with dread ; They prevail against him like a king ready for the battle . * Because he stretched forth his hand against God , And bade defiance to the Almighty , * And ran against him with outstretched neck , With the thick bosses of his bucklers ; * Because he covered his face with fatness , And gathered fat upon his loins , * And dwelt in desolated cities , In houses which no man inhabiteth , That are ready to become heaps . * He shall not be rich ; his substance shall not endure , And his possessions shall not be extended upon the earth . * He shall not escape from darkness , And the flame shall dry up his branches ; Yea , by the breath of His mouth shall he be taken away . * "Let not man trust in vanity ! he will be deceived ; For vanity shall be his recompense . * He shall come to his end before his time , And his branch shall not be green . * He shall shake off his unripe fruit like the vine , And shed his blossoms like the olive –tree . * The house of the unrighteous shall be famished , And fire shall consume the tents of bribery . * They conceive mischief , and bring forth misery , And their breast deviseth deceit ."

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